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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
Ashes ticket-holder cricket fans may be turned away
Ticket-holders for this winter's Ashes series who bought their tickets on Internet auction sites may be turned away from the match venues it has been revealed. Selling tickets on such sites is actually a breach of Cricket Australia's sales conditions
Cricket Australia has cancelled 1,300 tickets, which had been sold online by touts at inflated prices but the association refused to reveal full details of which tickets and which matches were affected.
Spokesman Peter Young said Cricket Australia cancelled tickets purchased in various groups and in a suspicious way.
"We also identified a number of scalpers and have cancelled all the tickets they sold online and reissued them," said Peter Young.
"If people took the risk and bought tickets off internet sites such as eBay, there is a risk they will turn up to the ground and not be able to get in.
"The message is simple: If you are holding a ticket you purchased through the Internet, you could be holding a dud."
The Ashes series starts in Brisbane on 23 November and the first four days of the final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the start of January.
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